Stories Archive - Innovation Quarter

Scaling Your Startup: How Innovation Districts Provide the Tools for Growth

December 18, 2024

Like never before, the contemporary business landscape is marked by the rapid growth of a myriad of startups as the market becomes increasingly competitive. This progress is driven by technological advancements, evolving customer needs, and a dynamic business landscape.The constant changes also bring many challenges…

Lifestyle

What’s Your Food iQ? Festive Sips & Bites

December 6, 2024

It’s beginning to taste a lot like the holiday season in the Innovation Quarter, thanks to iQ restaurants and bars that have added seasonal items to their menus this month. There’s lots of delicious holiday food in Winston-Salem this season! And did we mention the…

Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Ecosystem

Keeping Innovation Running: Unsung Heroes Working in the Innovation Quarter

November 24, 2024

Have you ever attended an event in the Innovation Quarter? Or stepped foot in one of the many buildings that comprise the innovation district? If so, you’ve reaped the rewards of a job well done by behind-the-scenes people working in the Innovation Quarter. A bustling…

Community, Ecosystem

Encore Bank: When Your Banker Is Also a Neighbor

November 20, 2024

It’s 4 pm on a Friday, and you’re facing a dilemma. It’s a little last-minute. Do you send that text message or not? You finally decide to press send, but you quickly follow up your request with another message: “But I hate to interrupt your…

Young-Joon Seol Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) demonstrates Bioprinting muscle tissue, Richard H. Dean Biomedical Building (A1).

Ecosystem

How Regenerative Medicine is Changing Healthcare: From Cell Therapies to Organ Regrowth

November 13, 2024

Regenerative medicine focuses on regenerating, repairing, or growing human cells, tissues, and organs. This is usually done to repair or replace damaged tissues and organs using cell therapy, tissue engineering, and organ regrowth techniques. Regenerative medicine aims to restore the body's normal function by employing…

A scientist working at the bench in the Wet Lab LaunchPad located in the Dean Biomedical Research Building.

Ecosystem

What Are the Advantages of Wet Lab Spaces for Startups?

November 13, 2024

The biotech and life science industries have been experiencing rapid growth in the past couple of years. The rising number of new biotech startups, coupled with innovations in gene editing, cell therapy, and drug discovery, has increased the need for specialized lab spaces, namely wet…

Diversity & Inclusion

Breaking with Tradition: Women in STEM with Olga Pierrakos

November 12, 2024

It may stem from her Greek heritage, but Olga Pierrakos, U.S. National Science Foundation Program Director for STEM Education and founding leader of Wake Forest University’s Engineering program, is passionate about more than just engineering education. She has a love for poetry. And history. And…

Community, Lifestyle

iSpy in the iQ: Photos from the iQ Community

October 21, 2024

iSpy with my little eye…a smokestack! Or maybe it’s a cheesy slice of Cugino Forno pizza. You may think you’re too old to play “I Spy” games, but in the era of cell phones and social media, we’re all participating in one big game of…

Ecosystem, Entrepreneurship

Welcoming the New Neighbor: The 5 Ws of Sparq Labs

September 30, 2024

There’s a new kid on the block in the Innovation Quarter. The iQ recently announced the opening of Sparq Labs, the iQ’s newest amenity for life science companies. With its relationship to Sparq, the startup and small business launchpad, Sparq Labs may actually be less…

Community, Lifestyle

Who’s in the Building: Bailey South

September 23, 2024

Picture this: You’re walking down the sloping sidewalk on Patterson Avenue, past Bailey Power Plant, looking at the cutest dog playing in Bailey Park across the street. You look up at the twin smokestacks. Just how high are those? Your gaze drops down and you…

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